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by rahimiali 4y ago
The problem isn't that the list is incomplete. It's that the endeavor is poorly conceived. You can names tapes by their intended use, or by their adhesive properties, or by the material of the substrate, etc. Depending on what nam
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by rahimiali 4y ago
Unroll the tape on your right index finger, starting from where your thumb meets your index. That's the origin. Your thumb points along the positive Z direction. Your index points along y, and x is your middle finger points along x.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Direct link to the line in question: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-bootrom/blob/ef22cd8ede5... (@dang, worth updating the link?)
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by rahimiali 5y ago
It doesn’t matter who these people are. If you’ve seen patents before, you can cause from the screenshots how similar the diagrams are to the sources.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Python's main interpreter loop is a single 4k line function. https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/ceval.c#L...
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Many of the comments seem to interpret this to mean "don't try to craft insights into your models. instead use dumb generic models and a lot of data." That's not how I read the article. Not all convolutional neural nets
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by rahimiali 5y ago
The strategy is a greedy one. You're maximizing the one-step-ahead information gain. But this can end you in a spot where two steps ahead, you're only left with low information-gain moves, or at least, lower than you would have if
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Here's another way to classify this mistake. Usually, engineers first get good at "technology". Then they learn to get good at "product". Somewhere in their careers, they learn about "distribution". And th
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by rahimiali 5y ago
IDE hints like this are useful when you're writing the code, but not so useful when you're reviewing it in online code review tools. I wish code review tool could provide this hover functionality too.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
time.sleep_seconds is appealing, but this approach doesn't work when a function takes additional arguments. for example, if your function is poll_file_descriptors(read_descriptors, write_desciptors, timeout_in_seconds) it would
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by rahimiali 5y ago
The top comments aren’t doing the article justice. The article is really about the kinds of subjects that can be covered in depth as small sections that do not have dependencies between them. It explains the value of topics that can be pres
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by rahimiali 5y ago
The article explains why lists aren’t just headings on top of paragraphs. For example, the list can be read in any order. There is no dependence between them.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Doesn't the comment right below the one you linked successfully refute Danny Sullivan's claim?
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by rahimiali 5y ago
I don't think you get arrested for pulling a chair?
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Could someone explain what a graph-relational database is? I'm not able to extract a technical definition from the paragraph below: "What is a graph-relational database? EdgeDB is built on an extension of the relational data model
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by rahimiali 5y ago
In the context of this article, and I presume the parent comment, “bare metal” refers to a hosted VM (like ec2 instances) not running your own data center.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Upvoted for the subtle and relevant use of “cooke”.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Let’s say that’s the manager’s only job. But “communicating requirements in a written doc” is serious hard work, the same way “typing code in a text editor” is a lot of work. To do the former requires negotiating with other teams, understan
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by rahimiali 5y ago
This sentence stood out to me most: “executioners often claimed the clothes that their clients wore to the execution”. The word “client” is what shook me.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
aren’t like 0% of car accidents caused by faulty brakes?
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by rahimiali 5y ago
A lot of valid criticism here about the measure of complexity, but considering the author’s initial motivation, I think the approach makes sense: “The magazine had a little travel article, and it was written in English on one page and Thai
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Ok. What is the art of building things that are good, but violate some constraints of the real world? I’d like to use the products from that discipline.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
If you’re curious how they’ve adapted SQL to query JSON, here is the trick: The JSON “Must be an array of objects. Nested object fields are ignored”.
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by rahimiali 5y ago
The main interpreter loop looks a lot like python’s. It uses the same pre processor tricks and jump tables to help both the reader and the compiler to make sense of the flow. It’s also near that integers are unboxed, at the expensive of th
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by rahimiali 5y ago
In what way is this forth-like? The opcodes take immediates and registers as arguments, whereas forth-like would be much more stack-based than this, right?
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UW CS dept denounces retired professor’s tweet on women hires(geekwire.com)
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by rahimiali 5y ago
Enlightenment doesn't come from actually using LISP, I've concluded, after years of feeling dumb about it. It comes from understanding how LISP is built. Once you understand how LISP is built, you'd never actually use it for
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by rahimiali 5y ago
The lighton device accelerates random linear projections. Its input is a vector x and its output is a vector W*x, where W is a fixed random matrix. This is useful for a class of machine learning algorithms, but not frequently used in deep l
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by rahimiali 5y ago
When someone says "I like feature F in system S", I for one appreciate the response "F is actually called F' and exists in a purer form in system S'". It broadens my view of F in two ways! There might be nicer
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by rahimiali 5y ago
The pattern appears to follow stock market hypes. First China markets: construction, then child education. And now nft/metaverse, a US hype. Given there is no actual underlying product or business, it looks like a vehicle for pump and

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